( 300 ) 

 UT. Pachycephala arctitorquis kebirensis Mey. 



CtXoi:Z;ul. I'Ml. p. 2V2. 



At last wo have received a series from Bablier, i.e. topotypical kchimixig. 

 They bear out what I wrote two years ago {I. c). The females have the crown 

 brownish or rnfons grey. Though occasionally examples of 1'. a. arctitonjuis 

 a])]iroach them, as a rnle the two forms are easily separable in the female sex. 

 Jlr. Klilin sent from ISabber : 



4 ? ad., 1 S juv., o ? ¥, Te]ia, August and September TJiKJ (Nos. 6(i:.'0, 0(597, 

 6707, U771, 0777, 091^4, 0930, 0943). 



68. Zosterops bassetti Sharpe. 



Cf. Noc.Zuol. i;i04. p. 214. 



(As 1 have said before, I cannot decide, without a complete study of the genus 

 ZoMerops, how many forms can bo named trinomial ly, and tliercl'ore employ 

 l)iuomials for them at present. As long as we distinguish minutely, our labour 

 will not be lost.) 



The specimens from Babber and Luang a2)pear to be ijuite similar to each 

 other, and I cannot distinguish them from e.xamples from Dammer and Roma 

 (cf. Soc. Zool. 19U4. p. 214). The bills of the Babber and Luang speeiraens are 

 as large as in those from Roma and Dammer — some, if .anything, oven larger. 

 Z. letticims has a much smaller bill and is more white underneath, and Z. citrinella 

 of Timor is still smaller, with a much smaller bill. Mr. Kiihn sent twelve 

 Z. bassetti from Babber (Nos. 0085, 0080, 0740, 0747, 6792, 0842, 0S07, 0901, 090o, 

 0907, 0979, 0990). 



69. Dicaeum mackloti salvadorii A. B. Bleyer. 



Dicaeum salvadorii k.'B.M.eyev, Ahh. his. 1S84. pp. 7. ^8 (Babber); of. Fiusch, Xutcx Lrijihni 

 Museum xxii. p. 274. 



In Nov. Zool. 1904. p. 214 1 enumerated specimens from Roma and Jloa as 

 Dicaeum inackloti snbsp. nov. ?, saying that they were somewhat apparently 

 intermediate between D. m. mackloti and I), m. salvadorii, of which I had only a 

 single male in jioor condition from Dammer, and none from the " terra tyjiica " 

 (Babber), and that the black band surrounding the rod throat was " nearly always 

 wider in the Roma birds." Now we have received topotypical specimens from 

 Babber, and I find that I cannot separate the specimens from Moa from those of 

 Bablier, while those from Roma have the red of the throat darker (as dark as in the 

 "tyj)ical" mackloti from Timor), and surrounded by a wide black liand, in adnlt 

 birds ; while in U. m. salvadorii this baud is absent or indicated, but never wide 

 and well developed. 



I distingaish, therefore, the following forms : 



Dii-aciim mackloti mackloti Mlill. 



[Smaller, c^ ad., wing about o4'o to oO'o, abdomen white with a creamy tinge, 

 dark red throat-patch surrounded by a broad black line : Timor and .Savu. 



Dicaeum mackloti romac subsp. nov. 



Larger, c? iwl., wing about 58 — 59-5, abdomen yellowisii crcam-colonr, dark 

 rod throat-jiatcli surrounded by a broad black line : Roma. Type No. 5399, Roma, 

 10. viii. 1902, H. Kiihn coll. 



